Manage which apps can detect your Mac location

Location Services allows apps and websites to gather and use information based on the current location of your Mac. Your approximate location is determined using information from local Wi-Fi networks, and is collected by Location Services in a manner that doesn’t personally identify you.

Turn Location Services off

Click the lock icon to unlock it, then enter an administrator name and password.

Deselect Enable Location Services.

If you turn off Location Services on your Mac, your precise location will not be sent to Apple. To deliver relevant search suggestions, Apple may use the IP address of your Internet connection to approximate your location by matching it to a geographic region.

Even if you disable Location Services, third-party applications and websites may still use other ways to determine your location. For safety purposes, however, your Mac’s location information may be used for emergency calls to aid response efforts regardless of whether you enable Location Services.

Significant Locations allows your Mac to identify places significant to you in order to provide useful location-related information in Maps, Calendar, Reminders, and more. Significant Locations are encrypted and can’t be read by Apple. Click Details to view a list of locations that have been identified. You can select and remove locations from the list or click Clear History to remove all the locations.

If you allow third-party apps or websites to use your current location, you are subject to their terms and privacy policies and not the Apple Privacy Policy. You should review their terms and privacy policies to understand how they treat and use your location information. See the Apple Privacy Policy.

When you use Safari Suggestions or Spotlight Suggestions, the location of your Mac at the time you submit a search query to Safari or Spotlight is sent to Apple to make suggestions more relevant and to improve other Apple products and services.